The chief executive Shell has urged a post Brexit UK to hold onto free trade and free movement of people.
Ben van Beurden insisted while the company would continue to invest in the UK there was no real answer as to what happens next.
The company boss, who backed the remain camp, said: “We will still continue to invest in the UK, we still have a $4bn investment programme we need to complete by 2018. We will still provide energy in the UK, we will still employ people in the UK. So in the short run of course nothing will change.
“I think the big question that everybody has is: what will happen next? And I think in all honesty we cannot say with any great certainty or clarity what the end result of all this will be.
“We will be, inevitably, in period of wait-and-see, hoping to have a good outcome from an economic perspective. But until that is clear, it is very, very hard to predict what will happen.”
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The company boss said free movement was critical to sustaining the UK’s economy.
Speaking at an event in London, he said:”Shell has always been clear about the benefits of the single market and free movement of people, both for the UK and the EU as a whole.
“I hope that the future relationship between the UK and the rest of Europe will continue to provide the right conditions for economic growth.
“We believe in the power and the relevance of free trade and free movement of people.”
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